Michel Chion presents the career of Pierre Henry in seven parts (see contents): ideas, works and collaborations with other artists. He discusses his musical collaboration with Pierre Schaeffer at the Groupe de Recherche Musique Concrète (chapters 1 and 2), his first private studio and his most important works of the 1960s (chapters 3 to 5), the age of celebrity in the 1970s (chapters 6 and 7), the new home studio (chapter 8) and the electronica period of Pierre Henry (chapter 9 and 10). A glossary of major electroacoustic music terms, a list of his works from 1950 to 2003 and a discography complete the book.
Table of contents:
- Seek a lonely man for symphony
- Orphée revealed
- The cellar of labour
- Voyages in inside-outside
- The time is near
- Glorious feedback
- The name shouted at space
- The Wahnfried-on-Seine
- Engagements in shade
- A pulsating sphere